Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 144
seriousness of the scheme is stillattested in the Devils Dyke. There is an ancient tradi-tion that when the Devil had smuggled himself into NoahsArk, he tried to sink it by boring a hole; but this schemewas defeated, and the human race saved, by the hedgehogstuffing himself into the hole. In the… … Fig. 7.—Japanese Demon. tive belief of the Japanese almost the same position asthe Serpent in the nations that have worshipped, untilbold enough to curse it. In many of the early picturesof Japanese demons one may generally detect amidtheir human, wolfish, or other characters some traits ofthe…
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